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Quotes About Itself

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.
~ Jim Cantalupo
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
~ Susan George
In other words, the dream itself, hidden in the memory, rises to its own defense when it hears itself being challenged by an alternate version, and so reveals itself.
~ Walter Murch
proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.
~ Darrell Huff
I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.
~ James Carville
It was, Sylveste knew, simply the understandable attempt of a culture to raise a mirror to itself. What made it significant was the complete extent to which it had permeated their culture
~ Alastair Reynolds
In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.
~ Rae Armantrout
As if (I remember thinking) some monstrous giant had been holding mad carnival with itself at the end of that great passage.
~ William Hope Hodgson
I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.
~ Mike Pence
And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
~ Ioan Gruffudd
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
~ Richard Preston
What they were glossing over with this too-convenient metaphor was that life itself was just a long series of trigger events.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.
~ Samuel Johnson
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
~ Paul Klee
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
~ Andrew Marvell
I wanted to leave myself . . . but I was paralyzed. I had this really strange feeling that, if I just stayed there, the world would right itself. Margot would come back.
~ Robert Galbraith
Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.
~ Roger Moorhouse
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.
~ Libba Bray
Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.
~ Simone Weil
The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.
~ Anna Funder
A paste of blue cloud untangled itself on the red sky over the harbour.
~ Anne Carson
Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.
~ Alice Hoffman
The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message
~ Allen Ginsberg
I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.
~ Jay Weatherill